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Facing a grim diagnosis, a man has a charmed collision with a poem.

Life as a poetry columnist.

Like conventioneers everywhere, academics at this three-day conference drift through hotel lobbies and wait for something good to happen.

When people call her for guidance, a minister offers poems.

An interview with Garrison Keillor.

Stolid Carl Sandburg in praise of the radical Ezra Pound.

James Schuyler's letters require patience, but there's soul under the gossip.

Poems are like messages in a bottle sent out with little hope of finding a recipient. Those of us who find and read poems become their unknown addresses.

To read a poem is to depart from the familiar, to leave all expectations behind.